{"id":830,"date":"2018-12-31T14:12:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2018-12-31T14:12:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:12:43","slug":"lone-star-reviewsmichelle-newby-nbcc-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Lone Star Reviews<\/span>Michelle Newby, NBCC,<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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Pickers, poets, and pursuits: two new books
explore the lives of Texas music legends<\/h1>\n

Review essay by Si Dunn<\/p>\n

TEXAS MUSIC<\/p>\n

Craig Clifford and Craig D. Hillis, editors<\/span><\/p>\n

Pickers and Poets: The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas<\/span><\/p>\n

Texas A&M University Press<\/p>\n

John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music<\/p>\n

978-1-6234-9446-9 (hardcover, $29.95); 978-1-6234-9447-6 (ebook), 280 pages, index; December 2016<\/p>\n

Lloyd Sachs<\/span><\/p>\n

T Bone Burnett: A Life in Pursuit<\/span><\/p>\n

University of Texas Press<\/p>\n

978-1-4773-0377-1 (hardcover, $26.95), 978-1-4773-1156-1 (ebook), 278 pages; October 2016<\/p>\n

Texas, it is often said, is a state of mind. <\/span>It is also a state of music that now is known around the planet for its distinctive blending of cultures, genres, history, current times, and haunting yet sometimes bittersweet or even darkly humorous sounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas music\u201d gets much of its strength and widespread appeal from unique performers who sing and play well but, more important, write \u201cruthlessly poetic\u201d songs that let audiences experience \u201csomething from a perspective that we wouldn\u2019t ordinarily have access to,\u201d the two editors of Pickers and Poets<\/span> contend.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Texas A&M women\u2019s basketball coach tells his story<\/h1>\n

With college basketball\u2019s March Madness just around the corner, <\/span>Texas A&M women\u2019s coach Gary Blair<\/span> tells his story in a very engaging style in A Coaching Life<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas A&M University Press, $29.95 hardcover).<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span>Blair has been a highly successful college coach for more than thirty years, the last fourteen of them at A&M. His 2010\u201311 Aggie team won the NCAA championship. Before going to A&M, Blair coached the girls at Dallas South Oak Cliff High School to three state titles, was an assistant at Louisiana Tech during two national championships, and built nationally-ranked programs at Stephen F. Austin University and the University of Arkansas.<\/p>\n

In his memoir, with veteran sports author Rusty Burson,<\/span> Blair quickly gets to the point of what he values from his coaching experiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat drives me,\u201d he says, \u201cis the need to make a difference in the lives of young people. What motivates me is the concept that victories and defeats, trials and triumphs, and adversities and accomplishments can teach life lessons that will be applicable to my players long after their basketball careers have ended.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the 233 pages in his memoir, the last 100 or so concern his coaching at A&M. Blair, 71, says he is often asked when he might retire. His answer: \u201cWhen I don\u2019t enjoy it anymore.\u201d He doesn\u2019t see that happening soon.<\/p>\n

Two popular authors: <\/span>I enjoyed zipping through the latest novels from two popular Texas authors.<\/p>\n

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Wild Horse Springs<\/span><\/a><\/span> is Jodi Thomas\u2019s<\/span> fifth book in her Ransom Canyon series (HQN, $7.99 paperback). Sheriff Dan Brigman and itinerant singer\/songwriter Brandi Malone feel a growing passion for a wild and memorable fling with no strings attached, if they can ever get anytime alone.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a hardened Texas Ranger\u2019s life is saved by a woman park ranger, who seems adept at nearly everything except matters of the heart. A five-year-old girl in a red coat becomes the focus of a resourceful teenager trying to save her from a brutal gang, including one bad guy who is suddenly missing an ear.<\/p>\n

Diane Kelly\u2019s<\/span> Above the Paw<\/span><\/a><\/span> (St. Martin\u2019s, $7.99 paperback) is the fifth installment in her entertaining Paw Enforcement series featuring Fort Worth police officer Megan Luz and K-9 partner Brigit. They go undercover at TCU in an effort to find out who is selling a deadly\u00a0 drug called Molly. Exactly how does one go \u201cundercover\u201d with a German shepherd in tow? Kelly gets creative.<\/p>\n

Spanish missions:<\/span> The History Press has published Austin author Byron Browne\u2019s<\/span> account of the Spanish Missions of Texas<\/span><\/a><\/span> (21.99 paperback). He tells the stories of the early Spanish missions\u2014most of them established in the 1700s by Franciscan priests\u2014focusing on those around Goliad, El Paso, and San Antonio as well as Central and West Texas and the Panhandle.<\/p>\n

The book includes a number of photographs but cries out for more and larger pictures, as well as maps and lists to make it more accessible to the general reader.<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/a><\/span>erary Life<\/span><\/h1>\n

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LONE STAR LISTENS interviews\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

Kay Ellington, Editor and Publisher<\/span><\/h1>\n

2.12.2017\u00a0 San Antonio\u2019s Mayor Ivy Taylor shares her love of literature and literacy<\/h1>\n

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As we commemorate Black History Month this February, <\/span>an occasion that honors leaders and achievements in the African American community, consider this. San Antonio\u2019s mayor <\/span>Ivy R. Taylor<\/span> is the first African American female in U.S. history to ever serve as mayor of city of more than 1 million. Mayor has enthusiastically supported reading in her leadership role, and the city of San Antonio is one of the nation\u2019s leading cities in encouraging literary arts\u2014with the Mayor\u2019s Book Club, the San Antonio Book Festival, the Poets Laureate program, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: <\/span>How did you come to settle in San Antonio, Mayor Taylor, and what attracted you to the city?<\/span><\/p>\n

IVY R. TAYLOR: <\/span>The official answer is: a job. I was recruited by the San Antonio Affordable Housing Association to fill a summer position developing a collaborative outreach plan. The real answer is: A man! I was working on my master\u2019s degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when I had the opportunity to come to San Antonio for a summer internship. At church one Sunday, I met Rodney, and after I finished graduate school, I moved to San Antonio to be with him. We\u2019ve been married eighteen years now.<\/p>\n

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Texas’s only statewide, weekly calendar of book events<\/h1>\n

Bookish Texas<\/span> event highlights\u00a0 2.12.2017
<\/span>>><\/span><\/a><\/span> GO this week\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n
SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK: Dallas, Cedar Hill, Houston, Corpus Christi<\/span><\/span><\/span>IRVING\u00a0 Mon., Feb. 13\u00a0 Irving Public Library: Valley Ranch, a theatrical evening with romance author Eloisa James, 6:30PM
<\/span>ALSO IN IRVING TUES., FEB. 14:<\/span> La Madeleine, Fresh Fiction presents breakfast with romance author Eloisa James, 9AM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Tues., Feb. 14\u00a0 Austin Public Library – Windsor Park, Stephen Harrigan will discuss A Friend of Mr. Lincoln, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>DALLAS\u00a0 Tues., Feb. 14\u00a0 The Wild Detectives, Spiderweb Salon Love You: POETRY! MUSIC! ART! ZINES! BOOKS! COFFEE! BEER! LOVE!, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Wed., Feb. 15, <\/span>San Antonio Public Library – Encino, Jan Jarboe Russell will discuss The Train to Crystal City, 6:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>LINDALE\u00a0 Thurs., Feb. 16, Lillie Russell Memorial Library, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: Texas Writes with Jeramey Kraatz and Liz Garton Scanlon, 10AM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>TOMBALL\u00a0 Thurs., Feb. 16\u00a0 Lone Star College, 2016 Texas State Poet Laureate, Laurie Ann Guerrero, will be reading her works, answer questions, and signing books, 12:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>VICTORIA\u00a0 Thurs., Feb. 16, University of Houston, American Book Review reading series presents Vivian Gornick, 12PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>SOUTH PADRE ISLAND\u00a0 Sat., Feb. 18\u00a0 Paragraphs on Padre Boulevard, discussion and book signing with rodeo historian and author Gail Hughbanks Woerner, 1\u20133 pm<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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5th Annual San Antonio Book Festival to feature more than 100 authors, April 8<\/h1>\n

SAN ANTONIO\u2014The San Antonio Book Festival (SABF)<\/span> has released its lineup of more than 100 national, regional, and local authors who will appear at the 5th annual Festival, scheduled for Sat., Apr. 8, 2017. A detailed schedule of author sessions will be available at saplf.org\/festival<\/span><\/a><\/span> in March.<\/p>\n

Headlining the 2017 roster is New York Times<\/span> bestselling author Ann Patchett,<\/span> whose most recent novel, Commonwealth,<\/span> has spent 16 weeks on the Times\u2019<\/span> bestseller list. Patchett is also known for her PEN\/Faulkner award-winning novel Bel Canto, State of Wonder, <\/span>and This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage.<\/span> >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Stratton to kick off Literary Arts Council and Lone Star College Spring 2017 reading series<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span>CONROE\u2014Montgomery County\u2019s Writers in Performance series will open its spring 2017 lineup<\/span> with the president of the Texas Institute of Letters, W. K. \u201cKip\u201d Stratton,<\/span> appearing on Thurs., Feb. 16, 7 p.m. on the campus of Lone Star College\u2013Montgomery<\/span><\/a><\/span>, Room B-102.<\/p>\n

A former newspaper journalist, Stratton is best known for his historical nonfiction. His first book, Backyard Brawl: Inside the Blood Feud between University of Texas and Texas A&M,<\/span> was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award. His more recent work, Floyd Patterson,<\/span> was a finalist for the PEN\/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing and his second volume of poetry, Ranchero Ford; Dying in Red Dirt,<\/span> was short-listed for the PEN Southwest Book Award. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Writers\u2019 Organizations \u2019Round Dallas sponsors WORDfest Mar. 11<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

DFW writers groups band together to hold public event<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span>HURST\u2014On Sat., March 11, 2017, Writers\u2019 Organizations \u2018Round Dallas will host WORDfest,<\/span> a first-of-its-kind trade fair of over 20 local writers organizations, featuring writing classes, panels, local authors and speakers, critique sessions, and door prizes. Representatives from all participating organizations will be standing by to meet interested attendees.<\/p>\n

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BULLETINS FROM DALLAS: REPORTING THE JFK ASSASSINATION by Bill Sanderson<\/h1>\n

Visit with Bill February 21\u2013March 2<\/p>\n

2\/21 Scrapbook Page StoreyBook Reviews<\/p>\n

2\/22 Review Hall Ways Blog<\/p>\n

2\/23 Author Interview Texas Book Lover<\/p>\n

2\/24 Book Trailer Forgotten Winds<\/p>\n

2\/25 Review Kara The Redhead<\/p>\n

2\/26 Video Interview The Page Unbound<\/p>\n

2\/27 Review Blogging for the Love of Authors and Their Books<\/p>\n

2\/28 Guest Post\u00a0 Byers Editing Reviews & Blog<\/p>\n

3\/1 Excerpt Books and Broomsticks<\/p>\n

3\/2 Review Reading By Moonlight<\/p>\n

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Lone Star Literary Life Facts and FAQs<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Lone Star Listens compilation available Aug. 1, for readers, fans, and writers everywhere<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>The present generation of Texas authors<\/span> is the most diverse ever in gender, age, and ethnicity, and in subject matter as well.<\/p>\n

Week in, week out, Lone Star Literary has interviewed a range of Texas-related authors with a cross-section of genre and geography. To capture this era in Texas letters, we’re pleased to bring you<\/p>\n

Lone Star Listens:<\/p>\n

Texas Authors on Writing and Publishing<\/p>\n

edited by Kay Ellington and Barbara Brannon; introduction by<\/p>\n

Clay Reynolds<\/p>\n

Available in trade paper, library hardcover, and ebook Fall 2017<\/p>\n

360 pages, with b\/w illustrations and index<\/p>\n

Featuring novelists, poets, memoirists, editors, and publishers, including:<\/p>\n

Rachel\u00a0 Caine \u2022 Chris\u00a0 Cander \u2022 Katherine\u00a0 Center \u2022 Chad S. Conine \u2022 Sarah\u00a0 Cortez \u2022 Elizabeth\u00a0 Crook \u2022 Nan\u00a0 Cuba \u2022 Carol\u00a0 Dawson \u2022 Patrick\u00a0 Dearen \u2022 Jim Donovan \u2022\u00a0Mac Engel \u2022 Sanderia\u00a0 Faye \u2022 Carlos Nicol\u00e1s Flores \u2022 Ben Fountain \u2022 Jeff\u00a0 Guinn \u2022 Stephen\u00a0 Harrigan \u2022 Cliff\u00a0 Hudder \u2022 Stephen Graham Jones \u2022 Kathleen Kent \u2022 Joe R. Lansdale \u2022 Melissa Lenhardt \u2022 Attica Locke \u2022 Nikki\u00a0 Loftin \u2022 Thomas\u00a0 McNeely \u2022 Leila\u00a0 Meacham \u2022 John\u00a0 Pipkin \u2022 Joyce Gibson Roach \u2022 Antonio\u00a0 Ruiz-Camacho \u2022 Lisa\u00a0 Sandlin \u2022 Donna\u00a0 Snyder \u2022 Mary Helen Specht \u2022 Jodi\u00a0 Thomas \u2022 Amanda Eyre Ward \u2022 Ann\u00a0 Weisgarber \u2022 Donald Mace Williams<\/p>\n

As a collection of insights into the writing and publishing life, the book will be useful in creative writing classes (not just in Texas alone) and other teaching settings, as well as for solo reading and study\u2014and a great Texas reference volume.<\/p>\n

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